2049 African Proverbs / Page 63
1241.
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.1242.
Patience over wins a lot of ill.1243.
Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.1244.
People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.1245.
People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way.1246.
People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?1247.
People who drink to drown their sorrows, should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.1248.
Poverty is slavery.1249.
Poverty without debt is real wealth.1250.
Practice with the left hand while the right is still there.1251.
Praise of the moon the god.1252.
Pray for good harvest, but keep on hoeing.1253.
Pregnancy could not be covered with the hand.1254.
Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.1255.
Problems come in threes.1256.
Proverbs are the daughters of experience.1257.
Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die.1258.
Quiet people are like still water their deep.1259.
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.1260.
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.